Carrolltown Forearm Pain due to Computer Keyboarding and Mouse Use Benefit from Chiropractic Care
Computer-related arm pain. Forearm pain. Computers, keyboards, and their mice can reek havoc on arms and necks and wrists at times. If computers and their accessories are an essential part of your life - as they are for so many Carrolltown chiropractic clients! – forearm pain may be an issue. Chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation can help with diagnosis, relieving treatment and specific recommended exercises to stretch and strengthen muscle tendons contributing to forearm tendinitis and forearm pain.
FOREARM TENDINITIS
Chronic tendon injuries are common and often linked to occupational issues like a modification in activity requiring the use of that tendon. Tendons are an intricate combination of flexibility, elasticity, and strength triggering a painful reaction and weakness. (1) The hand and its motions involve many muscle tendons that originate in the hand or insert into it from outside the hand like external tendons from the forearm. (2) In tendinitis, these muscle tendons may thicken and develop pain due to overuse or non-ergonomic equipment or poor form while using them. Strengthening exercises and rest may assist in relieving the pain. Mainly due to overuse, forearm tendinitis results from inflammation, irritation, redness, and swelling of the tendons in the wrist and elbow. (3) Pain in a single area like in the forearm is frequently not isolated, so weakness in other areas like the shoulder need attention, too. (4) Chiropractic care may benefit other arm pain issues, like radial nerve entrapments and lateral elbow epicondyle pain into the lower arm which increase when using a mouse in computer work. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will start with a solid exam to verify the source of your pain and set a relieving treatment plan. It’s a very common issue that is helped with treatment and exercise.
EXERCISES TO STRENGTHEN FOREARM MUSCLE TENDONS
Beyond making better ergonomic equipment choices like a keyboard with better ergonomics and/or mouse, forearm muscle exercises can help. Strengthen the tendons with wrist extension and flexion exercises with a light weight of a pound or two. Ball squeeze exercises repeated 15-20 times is helpful, but start with gentle squeezes and build up to stronger squeezes. Stretching exercises that have you hold your arm out straight, have your palm side face down with the other hand pulling your fingers toward your forearm will help keep these forearm muscle tendons flexible. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will work with you to be sure proper form so that you get the most from doing them.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Steven Baroody on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the treatment of shoulder and arm pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that includes spinal manipulation, nutrition, and exercise.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps many Carrolltown patients with forearm tendinitis due to computer typing and mouse use.
